and chuck hagel on the senate armed services committee. he is the president's defense secretary nominee. live on january 31 on c-span and c-span radio. >> three meters. >> contact. >> good to see you. >> it is hard to realize now 25 years after apollo-soyuz what the climate was like back then. in a way after the stalin years and the fears, issue and all of that sort of thing, the soviets were very foreign to us, you know? after some of the things that happened, without they were a pretty aggressive people. i would not say monsters, but they probably thought we were monsters. we very quickly broke through that. when you deal with people in the same line of work as you and you are around them for some time, you discover they are human beings. >> this weekend on "american history tv" former astronaut vance brand on the meeting in space between u.s. astronauts and soviet cosmonauts. this sunday on c-span at 3 p.m. >> house speaker john boehner and other house republicans spoke to reporters on the upcoming vote on the debt ceiling. the house is